Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-10-18
DETECTIVE WORK
BRINGS TO LIGHT JOSEPH CONNARBDS
STOLEN MONEY.
His Wife Gives the Snap Away to a Bogus Lawyer
and the Case is Worked Out ma
Clever Manner.

NACNNA @A-@
Yesterday mornings REGISTER contain
d a full account of a rather interesting
,lopement case, in which an Italian named
Joseph Cannared, Of Pittsburg, his wife
md Rachael Meolo were the principal act
DTS, supported by several other sons Of
sunny Italy and the Wheeling police. 1t
was in several acts and many scenes, and
the miscellaneous mixture of English and
Ltalic language was something wonderful.
In the last act, it will be remembered,
Meolo, the parsmour, and Rosa
Spinnel6 Cannsred, the guilty wife, along
with a friend named James Paraleni, re-
posed serenely in the dungeon cells at
the City Building, while the husband
disconsolately tramped the streets, signing.
and longing for the return OF about $4OO,
THE FAITHLESS WIFE
had skipped with, but the money seemed
to be tar, far away. But, alb, ha! a
bright idea once more brings the money
in the scope of Cannared's vision. The
Of John Dumas, the hveryman,
are secured, and a scheme Is concocted.
In accordance with this scheme,
Dumas, on Sunday night, went to the wo-
mans cell and informed her he was a law
yer, and transacted the business for all the
Italians in the city, and after a talk over
the matter he finally made a proposition
that if she would pay him 500 he would
secure the release of Meolo and herself.
She agreed to do this and told him
that she could secure the money
from Meolo's brother, who lives
in Bellaire. This gave the officers a clue,
and shortly afterwards Dumas and the
woman's husband were put in a cell be-
tween the two, so that they might catch
their conversation, and
THEY SUCCEEDED.
The two presently began to talk over the
matter in Italian, and both seemed very
iubilant over the prospect of being re-
leased for 500, saying that they would
then have $500 left to have a good time
on. Then they felt good and sang in their
Joy. In tact, they gave the whole thing
away, and the fact that Meolo's brother in
Bellaire had most of the money was ascer-
tanned. That was enough, the play draws
to a close. Yesterday morning Chief Smith
and Officer West secured q rig, intending
to drive down to Bellaire TO hunt
up the brother. Before they
started, however, they drove to the board
ing house at Twelfth and Water streets,
where they found two Bellaire Italians,
u of whom wa found to be the Bellaire
Meolo's partner in business. Officer West
caught a glance at a box in the other chaps
hand, and suspecting it was the stolen
property, he captured it, and his suspicious
were found to be correct.
The Italians then became frightened and
INFORMED THE OFFICERS
that there was no use Of going to Bellaire
after Meolo, that he was down in Ann
Keim's house of i'll fame. The Officers
Immediately drove there and found their
man in fagrGnte delictO with n of the in
mates. He was arrested, and when his
clothes were searched they were found to
contain 1920 in cash, which Mrs. Cannared
had deposited with him, two dangerous
looking daggers and other articles. How
ever, the money was the great object, and
Officer West had reason to feel proud Of the
clever piece of detective work done by him
which resulted so we'll.
When informed oftheir success, Cannared
was in ecstacies, and ratified off broken
Italian in a way that made the furniture
creak. And here, to make the story more
interesting, it might do to add that Can
nared stated that his wife had attempted
to poison him at one time and again she
attempted to cut another mans throat, but
made a mislick and cut n side of his
mouth about four inches wider. In the
words of the husband,
'SHE'S a DAISY"
When at the Italic boarding house
Officer West also learned that one Of the
Italics concerned in the matter had deposit
ed $l1O iD the German bank, which was
also a part of the money stolen by the
woman, and an attachment will be issued
for it to-day. The $40 which was taken
from Paraleni Sunday night belonged to
the pile also, so it can he seen that the
money was pretty well scattered about and
the working out Of the case was quite a feat.
Chief Smith and Officer West took
the woman and her paramount to Pitts
burg on the early train, being
accompanied by Canuared and his
friend. The chagrin of the guilty pair can
he well imagined when they found they
had gwen themselves away. They were
Turned over TO the authorities at Pittsburg,
and all the other parties were allowed TO go
free, and so the curtain is rung down on
the little romance.